During our August 2020 gathering with systems change practitioners, we shared our success stories and reflected on the important lessons they revealed. We asked: What conditions made the systems change success you experienced possible?
Practitioners shared skills and actions that lead to systems change:
Values, key elements, and the social-emotional state of our communities also impact our ability to be successful.
Our collective stories also affirmed the critical importance of our values and how they shape our practices and approaches. Together we named the many barriers that we have had to overcome in our work, and identified themes across our stories of success.